Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Hello! My name is Paige, and as the newest addition to TehSiBlog, I thought I'd share a little bit about myself and share an idea about a topic to add to this site.

I've known Simon since the good ol' days of Tony's Meats, making our pastries and selling our overpriced coffee. Somehow I made my way out to SoCal (Southern California) where I just graduated with my Psychology degree this past December. My other interests include reading up on pop culture, the financial industry, and the oh so important, beer promotional work.

Being that I am a psychology major, I thought I'd add "PsyBlog" . My hope is that I can share some interesting Psychology articles or facts! Please give me your feedback and comments!

And for my first post.....

Phobias. We all have something or someone that makes us nervous or anxious. However, when do you know that that nervousness or anxiety is a little too much to handle? Perhaps it's preventing you from living a "normal, functional" life? It is possible that you have a phobia.

According to Dictionary.com, a phobia is described as "a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it." A couple phobias that are worth noting are:

Kathisophobia - the fear of sitting down (this could be a problem in many ways).

Melophobia - the fear or hatred of music

Pediophobia - the fear of dolls

Pogonophobia - the fear of beards

And a few "serious" ones:

Nyctophobia - the fear of night or darkness

Pteromerhanophobia - the fear of flying

Soceraphobia - fear of parents-in-law

Triskaidekaphobia- fear of the number 13

If you'd like to see the most lengthy list of phobias, you can visit phobialist.com. Let me know what you think!

10 comments:

hmm, the psychologist in me would say that you were punished for wetting your bed when you were a child and somehow you have not been able to surpass that issue, creating the phobia of urinating. Urinating = punishment.

The wasp thing...yeah, maybe they terrorized you as a kid. You know how Littleton is known for their wasps!

You know you could also call it the PsyPaige because Paige rhymes with page. And a page is somehting that can be used to write on like a notepage, webpage, blank page...So it would be kind of like a riddle. Psy could refer to your mental state.So the page would in fact be your page on Psych or your mental state with your name attached to the page. Hence PsyPaige or PsyBlogPaige or PsychoPaigic. The possibilities are endless. They really are!